FDA warns on unregistered products

THE Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in three new advisories issued late last week warned the public not to purchase or consume 18 unregistered food supplements currently circulating in the market.

The 18 products for which advisories were issued on Thursday bring April’s total number of product warnings from the food and medicine safety watchdog to 44, after the FDA issued advisories on 26 products on April 4.
In the latest warnings, the FDA said that the listed products “have not gone through the registration process of the agency and have not been issued the proper authorization,” and may pose potential health risks to consumers.

The FDA did not, however, describe any specific health risks of the products or any known cases of consumers falling ill from them.